Posts by IGotOut

A man spent a year in jail on a murder charge involving disputed AI evidence. Now the case has been dropped

Re: Remember folks.

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/admissability-of-polygraph-tests-in-court.html

"As of today, 23 states still consider polygraph tests to be admissible in court. However, the majority of those states require the approval of both parties before they can be submitted. Also, in most cases, the polygraph test is not being used in a criminal case, but rather in civil court, such as if there was an issue that prevented a person from getting a job or gaining security clearance"

Remember folks.

This is the country that thinks lie detectors are OK to use as evidence.

A quick summary of expert evidence in court.

If you create a quack device and say it can prove guilt or not, so long as its general accepted by experts in that field, the judge can accept it.

So who are the other experts in the field? Well as you invented the device, they are most likely people you have trained, and if they believe the lie it works. Bingo.

As far as I'm aware, only DNA is the only science backed forensic evidence out there.

Look how bad finger print evidence is to get a clue, and as for blood splatter....

China puts continuous consent at the center of data protection law

Could we have the Chinese laws..

... just without the authoritarian, genocidal, mass internment and lack of freedom of speech parts.

Thanks.

UK's competition regulator fires red flare over Nvidia's $40bn Arm takeover deal

Re: First Ultra, now Arm

I can't see the issue with the Ultra buyout, it's being bought out by Cobham, you know, the famous tank armour company....And there is no way we'd ever allow that to be sold...

Oh wait.. What?

So the data centre's 'getting a little hot' – at 57°C, that's quite the understatement

Two questions

Did no one think of turning the AC off?

Why have you got sprinklers in a server room?

Tesla promises to build robot you could beat up – or beat in a race

I'll take it on in a fight.

So long as I don't weigh 30 tonnes, have flashing lights all over my body, be pushing a bicycle and be surrounded by well lit barriers, it has no chance of hitting me.

Chinese web giant Tencent predicts Beijing has more internet regulations coming – and welcomes them

Interestingly...

... I'm currently listening to a back episode of "The Last Archive" and it was all about "Internet" regulation. The reason Internet is in quotations, is Congress set up formal committees to look into data collection and computers, before networks existed. They were warned that data collection needed regulation.

They did nothing.

Then along came ARPNET, and a couple of years later, another hearing. Again they were warned data collection needed regulation.

They did nothing.

Then there was the Facebook fiasco a few years back, y'know the famous "So how does Facebook make money if you don't charge?"

They did nothing.

And then we seem surprised China are doing SOMETHING.

GSMA and Euro-telcos argue for exemptions from big tech tax crackdown laws

Excuse me...

.... Your companies don't pay taxes.

Your customers pay your taxes for you. Let me put it another way. If the taxes go up, do you

a) absorb the costs

b) pass them onto your customer.

See, your customer pays, not you.

If you haven't updated your ThroughTek DVR since 2018 do so now, warns Mandiant as critical vuln surfaces

So...

it's been patched since 2018 and somehow it's gained a "new" vuln.

Branson sews cash parachute for Virgin Atlantic with $300m Virgin Galactic share sale

Re: a private-equity firm

I'm pretty sure if you go through the hundred offshore shell companies that probably form part of the private equity group, his name will be behind some.

One of the reasons Vigin Airlines needed a bail out is because they were paying millions to Virgin the brand the rights to use the name.

Thunderbird 91 lands: Now native on Apple Silicon, swaps 'master' for 'primary' password, and more

In other news

Depeche Mode have re-released the classic single

Primary and Secondary.

Huawei stole our tech and created a 'backdoor' to spy on Pakistan, claims IT biz

OK we don't have the details...

... but I'm really confused.

Huawei used BES "system" to create a backdoor to China.

Does that mean BES wss the backdoor I. E. this system was designed to compromise the security or is insecure by design?

What I'm saying is how did BES become part of the back door.

Scientists reckon eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio, harder than smallpox – just buckle in for a wait

Re: So what about an HIV vaccine?

Although there is no hiv vaccine there is PrEP which massively reduces the risk of transmission / infection.

The thing is, coronaviruses are relatively "easy" to vaccinate against, whereas HIV by its very nature is extremely difficult.

There is no big pharma cover up, because they could make a huge amount of money from it if there were a vaccine.

$600m in cryptocurrencies swiped from Poly Network

Oh poor deluded fools.

“Law enforcement in any country will regard this as a major economic crime and you will be pursued. It is very unwise for you to do any further transactions"

You know this Chinese crypto company you used, you know the ones from the country where cypto transactions are banned? Well they know these blokes in North Korea who are absolutely pissing themselves laughing at the moment.

Without a trace: Baroness Dido Harding to step down as chair of NHS Improvement

Re: She should...

To be fair, Dido the singer has a much more suitable full name for the title of Baroness (look it up if you don't know it)

Apple responds to critics of CSAM scan plan with FAQs, says it'd block governments subverting its system

Am I missing the obvious (along with everyone else)

If its only scanning images in the phone before they get uploaded to iCloud....... Why not just scan them as they ARRIVE on iCloud?

That is Apples service and they can easily say we don't want this on our servers.

Perl's Community Affairs Team chair quits as org put on ice by code language's foundation

Re: Software Communism

Jake is that you?

The sideloader weeps tonight: Unsealed court docs claim Google said 'install friction' would ‘drastically limit' Epic's reach

Your technical.

When a normal person has to go into multiple sub menus and then gets "This is really dangerous and will kill your first born child if you proceed. Are you sure you want to do this? ", what do you think their response is?

Alibaba fires manager accused of sexually assaulting colleague

That's because they don't apply to goods bought outside the UK / EU. No different if you import from the US or Australia.

Microsoft wonders if disabling just-in-time compilation of JavaScript improves browser security

I've some SaaSBlockchainAILowCodeMachinLearning SoftwareDefined kit you can HaaS.

THX Onyx: A do-it-all DAC for the travelling audiophile

Guess what, your parents / grandparents probably said the same about your taste in music.

Most people tend to say music around their teenage years was the "best ever made".

Foxconn buys chip factory off Macronix in bid to break into the electric vehicle market

Re: CMA

Why, it has no British Market?

8 years ago another billionaire ploughed millions into space to harvest solar power and beam it back down to Earth

Yes, yeah.

Solar power.... Yeah right

We all know its a death ray, Just admit it.

Tesla battery fire finally flamed out after four-day conflagration

By "under control"

They mean it's burnt itself out.

Nuisance call-blocking firm fined £170,000 for making almost 200,000 nuisance calls

Directors can now be directly jailed for non payment of fines with regards old calling

However you still have to go through the motions first.

London class-action sueball against Google is a lot like Epic's case except fandroids might win enough for a pint

Re: Why are they picking on Google?

Most phones come with an alternative store. The issue is you can't remove the Google root kit from your phone.

Happy birthday, Sinclair Radionics: We'll remember you for your revolutionary calculators and crap watches

Oddly...

The c5 probably would be a bigger success now. Far safer than a death trap electric scooter, but not as "safe" as a ebike.

Upcoming Android privacy changes include ability to blank advertising ID, and 'safety section' in Play store

Re: Zero Tracking

Google have taken note of this request..

Others suggesting this have also.....

Ex-health secretary said 'vast majority' were 'onside' with GP data grab. Consumer champion Which? reckons 20 million don't even know what it is

Re: Opt out?

"Probably, but when have the Tories ever let a little thing like total llegality stop them?"

Remind me who helped start the Iraq War? Or wanted national ID cards.

Illegality is standard practise for the rich and powerful.

I'm feeling lucky: Google, Facebook say workers must be vaccinated before they return to offices

Re: FREeDomZ

The difference is easy.

Vaccines reduce not only your risk of death, but that of others.

You are free to smoke in you own house and kill your own family, but I don't want you killing mine, so no smoking in the workplace or public places.

Bezos offers to knock $2bn off his bill to NASA to stay in the running for Moon contract

Dear Astronaut.

How does it feel to be sent in a ship made by the lowest bidder.

In a complete non-surprise, Mozilla hammers final nail in FTP's coffin by removing it from Firefox

Re: Root cause.

Yes because browsing a site then clicking a link is such a luser (how old are you?) thing to do. It is so stupid compared to browsing the site, right clicking and copying the link to get the address, opening up ftp client, setting all the required permissions and then downloading.

How's the crank handle on your car?

Watchdog slaps down Three's claims to be building the UK's 'fastest 5G network' – again

Dear Goverment.

Please allow ASA to fine companies 10% of global turnover for misleading adverts. Failure to pay fine results in 1 year in prison for Marketing Directors, for both the company asking for the advert AND, if a 3rd party is involved, the director of the advertising company.

That should very quickly stop 90% of current adverts dead.

Ad tech ruined the web – and PDF files are here to save it, allegedly

Re: Flash!

With Real Audio embed sound!

Verified: UK.gov launching plans for yet another digital identity scheme

OK we get it....

Covid scams are so last year, so your Eton chums need a new shit load of cash for doing fuck all.

Where on Gartner's Hype Cycle is Gartner's Hype Cycle?

Need to know...

Are IBM Watson and Oracle Cloud still the ones to onboard with?

(I feel so dirty saying "onboard")

Re: AIBlockchainOps

AgileAIBlockchainMLLowCodeOps if you don't mind. You are sooooo last quarter.

Wanted: State-backed bandits planning cyberattacks on US infrastructure. Reward: $10m

Re: I would have thought..

What?

You'll want to shut down the Windows Print Spooler service (yes, again): Another privilege escalation bug found

Well businesses (or home) could disable on all pc's with no printer requirement.

In many places that could be a large percentage.

Yes it's not a fix (which as it says is on its way), but it reduces the attack surface.

Microsoft, Google, Citizen Lab blow lid off zero-day bug-exploiting spyware sold to governments

And Chrome?

LibreOffice 7.2 release candidate reveals effort to be Microsoft-compatible

Re: Why the same >?

Migrate 5000 people to a completely different UI and then come back.

Or those that use MS at work, then at don't want to have to completely change their way of working just to knock something of to the school.

United, Mesa airlines order 200 electric 19-seater planes for short-hop flights

Great idea.

Now can we cancel hs2?

tsoHost pleads for 'patience and understanding' as sites borked, support sinkholed

Oh I'm pretty sure what's happening...

Got an email a couple of months back that they are migrating from the "Cloud Hosting" platform back to cPanel... Oh and as result of this complusory change, you'll be paying more and getting less.

Welcome to GoDaddy.

I was with 5quid host who were utterly fatanstic, then they got bought by tso, and the support was average, then they in turn got bought by GD and now its shit.

Google fined €500m for not paying French publishers after using their words on web

How it could play out.

Google: "We wont play, we'll take our ball back"

France "EU fancy stepping in?"

EU directive "*.doubleclick.com 0.0.0.0"

Google "Hey guys, we've found some spare cash, it's all just a silly misunderstanding"

G20 finance ministers agree plan to make multinationals pay their 'fair share' of tax

Re: Surely they knew?

It OK, some of us haven't forgotten when Dublin was one of the largest slave ports in the world's and the residents would raid "English" towns to pick up new slaves, steal the goods and burn the villages to the ground.

Re: Realities?

Ahhh, must be from the USA where a fairer society = communist.

EU backs it...

Well most of it.

Oddly Ireland, the big tech tax haven, decided not to back it.

Wierd that.

With a straight face, Putin agrees to do something about ransomware coming out of Russia, apparently

Anyone else noticed that manfrommars' posts are 95% coherent on this topic (but still make no sense) ?

I guess Mars is a place in Russia.

Richard Branson uses two planes to make 170km round trip

Re: Miserable and small minded

Branson also makes out he was this poor student dropout who did everything off his own back.

He just forgets the part he had incredibly wealthy parents.

To qoute Pulp.

"But still you'll never get it right

'Cause when you're laid in bed at night

Watching 'roaches climb the wall

If you called your dad he could stop it all."

Suck on this: El Reg forces dog hair, biscuit crumbs, and disconcertingly sticky stains down two mini vacuums

Re: The most unbelievable thing in the entire article

Maybe he had a gate to the back garden they could throw it over.